Analysis of Talk to you
I wish I could hug you right now,
but these very same hands gave you scars,
I'm guilty of it and I don't know what to do,
so I stare at the dead weight on my hands for hours.
It's hard to deal with this pain every time,
even if we saw it coming from afar,
still, it hurts just the same every time,
every wound, no matter how familiar, leaves a scar.
I wish there was some reason or logic,
something that will help me explain,
a reason why things always end up like this,
but unfortunately, every possibility to understand this mess has been slain.
I wish I could give you hope,
without making it sound like I'm talking about an impossible future,
I wish I could give you more than shallow-sounding promises,
and wounds that won't be fixed even if I try to suture.
I wish I could say things will get better,
I wish I could explain how it will be okay,
I wish I never knew that I don't see a way out of here for us,
I wish mere words were enough to convince you to stay.
Scheme | XXXX ABAB XCXC XDXD DEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) |
Metre | 11111111 111011111 110110111111 1111011111110 11111111001 10111110101 1111011001 10011101010101 1111110110 10111101 0101111111 101000100010010111111 1111111 0110111110011010010 111111111010100 01111110111110 1111111110 11110111111 11110111110111111 1111001101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 972 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
About this poem
Based on the poet's conversation with herself, 'talk to you' is about pain, scars, the future and promises about the future that sound and feel hollow
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Written on August 29, 2022
Submitted by aarushisaxena44 on October 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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